Maidstone
Maidstone is the debut album on Stroom by Swedish artist Velv.93, released as a double LP featuring 12 tracks of deeply immersive ambient music. Drawing from '90s ambient influences with understated drones, warbling tones, and scattered field recordings, it unfolds patiently like a slowly advancing glacier, offering a comforting yet chilly companion for winter introspection.
Behind the scenes, the record bears the imprint of a strong visual and spatial imagination. Mixed by Eraclio Pagliuca and …
Tectonic
On Tectonic, Simon Berz turns drums, electronics and electronically manipulated Icelandic basalt into a roaming, 15‑year travelogue: club‑pressured rhythms, gamelan echoes and cavernous ambience formed with stones as both instrument and co‑author.
Rituals of The Last dawn
On Rituals of The Last Dawn, Saba Alizadeh draws Persian classical memory into long‑form electro‑acoustic rites, two side‑long pieces that breathe like prayers for a wounded world - hushed, spacious, and quietly defiant.
Continuation
*300 copies limited edition* Words have never been my strongest point. I have many ideas in my head, often too many. I can talk a lot about them, but putting them on paper is not really me. I rather just work on my ideas. ‘cause whatever your thoughts are, as soon as it is out there and people start to listen it becomes theirs. What I might have thought up before, and have as concept behind the music, might not be how someone else listens to it. And that’s okay. If we keep in mind that my music …
Reverse Acceleration of Dragons
On Reverse Acceleration of Dragons, Radx (X.Y.R. & Vlad Dobrovolski) drift through retro‑synth mirages and sci‑fi haze, blending Cascone‑esque electronica and “living machine” dragons into a soft‑focus, humid strand of 12th Isle ambient.
Race At Neon Club
Featuring 8 tracks of dazzling electronic soundscapes, 'Race at Neon Club' sees Brice Dreessen fulfill the promise of his early work to deliver a beautiful, if at times unsettling, album that ranges from blissful interstellar ambience through to disorientating experimental noise and industrial rhythms.
Notes from the Air
On Notes from the Air, Ciro Vitiello turns the seagull into a trembling patron saint of dizziness and desire, drifting between orchestral swells, shoegaze haze and post‑rock afterimages in songs that hover on the edge of meaning and never quite touch down.
Five Stagings
Recorded in high summers and brutal winters in 2022 and 2023, Nightingale Floor’s debut album Five Stagings takes the listener through a quintet of spontaneously conjured and patiently crafted pieces for a quartet of musicians scattered across North-West England. Manchester-based poet Lauren McLean provides voice and words, joined by cellist Josh Horsley of Preston duo Powders, Benjamin D. Duvall of Liverpool four-piece Ex-Easter Island Head on sound collages, strings and trombone, with Tombed V…
La Donna del Lago
** Edition of 100. Beautifully designed sleeve by Bruno Stucchi/Dinamomilano. ** Die Schachtel's latest follows naturally from the sonic territory explored within the label's Decay Music series, while pushing well beyond. La Donna del Lago is the debut release from the geography-spanning trio of the Italian bassist and composer, Massimo Pupillo; the Canadian soprano singer and conductor, Barbara Hannigan; and the French composer, sound engineer and musician David Chalmin. An immersive tapestry o…
Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems
** Edition of 300. Glacial Blue Vinyl ** On Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems, Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou channel their friendship and atmospheric artistry into ceremonial focus. Spoken-word environments and orchestral imagination flow like tributaries into a unified stream, resulting in a collection of dreamlike songs and soundscapes anchored in sea, sky and stone. Through electro-acoustic instrumentation, voice, and environmental sound, Water Poems invites listeners into a subconscio…
Casida De La Tierra Que Nos Dejan
*Limited edition of 50 copies signed by the artist* Casida de la tierra que nos dejan is a sound work by Marcelo Expósito composed of four pieces published on 7’ vinyl record. This work dialogues with the way in which the Italian musician Luigi Nono early adapted the poetry of Federico García Lorca, trying to dig into the layers of idealisation traditionally accumulated about the writer from Granada, in order to carry out a materialistic updating of procedures common to both the writer and the m…
Metsä Henkii
"Metsä henkii" (Finnish for "The Forest Breathes") is a captivating 7-inch vinyl EP by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Simo Hakalisto, aka Shakali, released in 2024 via Stoned to Death Records. Based in Brno, Czechia, Hakalisto crafts immersive electro-acoustic soundscapes blending ancient and modern elements, evoking the subtle rhythms of nature like fungal networks and whispering pines.
Dried plum music for the grim reaper / gathering tiny traces
I’m very happy to present a split cassette of two of my favorite tape music artists from Denmark. A half hour of strange magnetic signals, unidentifiable voices, and all round textural bless. Too quiet to be noise, too gnarly to be ambient, but absolutely perfect for this label.
Après Coup
Blue Lake reveals his most ambitious album yet, which finds its visionary creator Jason Dungan harnessing the collective alchemy of his band, with ten spirited tracks that resonate with a powerful directness, evoking an ecological connection to the wider world.
Leave Another Day
In the ever-expanding universe of ambient and minimal electronic music archaeology, certain discoveries feel more significant than others - those rare moments when a previously overlooked recording emerges to fill gaps we didn't even know existed in our understanding of the genre's evolution. Stroom's reissue of Milan W's Leave Another Day represents precisely such a revelation, offering contemporary listeners access to a work that exemplifies the sophisticated minimalism that flourished in expe…
Juho Toivonen / Civilistjavel!
Double feature stint on Kashual Plastik. Twofold recreational Nordic spice, cultivated for dreamy solitude escapades and meditative tune voyages in witchcraft mood. Side A comes from Finnish experimental musician Juho Toivonen, shaped in his home in the city of Pori. A veiled minimalistic dream of gentle noise loops and environmental sounds, meeting a desiring voice that echoes haunting, mantra-like lyrics. Ship horns and other slow mechanic found sounds convoy it into eternity, while we, the au…
Terceiro Solstício
Luz gélida(d)o montediluída em flor(es).
Delicate guitars, ethereal voices, tracks woven from sighs and layers upon layers, like secrets and small nocturnal rituals under the cold glow of the moon. Beautiful, evocative, and quietly transformative. The artist, cláudia simões, also known as alga, dedicates this work to winter: a season of introspection, stillness, and subtle magic. Let's enjoy the offering.
Midnight
Clarity, more often than not, is a lie, a red herring. Truer, it seems, are blurred images and misty conceptions. Music history as a whole is undecipherable. Zooming in may bring some sense of understanding but many lineages lie far beneath the surface, made of obscure stories and oblique connections, like the ones that tie Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, Robert Ashley & Jacqueline Humbert - a scrawny branch in the genealogical tree on which now sits Thelma Cappello. Its motto reads: “voice is a…
Proportioning of open units
Besides being a visual artist, Christoffer Kjærskov has quietly been making experimental music for the last 20 years. His works, always recorded to 4 track cassette, seem to carry a certain warmth flowing through the patiently unfolding loops and shimmering melodies this release is an assemblage of synthesizer, urban field recordings and even some synthetic flute solos peeping through the tape mist. A lovely unpretentious recording, I am very happy to present through afvikling .
Scattered Memories
*2026 repress* On his debut album “Scattered Memories”, the composer, musician and true master on the Iranian spike fiddle kamancheh Saba Alizadeh blends his instrumental virtuosity with spherical electronics, samples of Persian music instruments and field recordings from his hometown Tehran.
Born in Tehran in 1983 as son of the world renowned Tar and Setar virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh studied the Iranian spike fiddle with Saeed Farajpoury and Keyhan Kalhor plus photography and later…